Hopes of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's return to the UK were quickly showered.
British MP for her constituency Tulip Siddiq, in contact with the family of this Iranian-British detainee in Iran since 2016, tweeted on Sunday March 7 that her electronic bracelet had been taken from her, adding, however, that she had "been summoned again to court "the following Sunday.
I have been in touch with Nazanin's family.
Some news:
1) Thankfully her ankle tag has been removed.
Her first trip will be to see her grandmother.
2) Less positive - she has been summoned once again to court next Sunday. # FreeNazanin
- Tulip Siddiq (@TulipSiddiq) March 7, 2021
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab responded by demanding the return "as soon as possible" to the United Kingdom of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has just finished serving a five-year prison sentence.
Dominic Raab "welcomed" in a tweet the withdrawal of the bracelet, adding however that "the treatment that Iran continues to inflict on him is intolerable".
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe "must be allowed to return to the UK as soon as possible to find his family," he said.
We welcome the removal of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's ankle tag, but Iran's continued treatment of her is intolerable.
She must be allowed to return to the UK as soon as possible to be reunited with her family
- Dominic Raab (@DominicRaab) March 7, 2021
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested with her daughter in April 2016 in Iran, where she had just visited her family, and then sentenced to five years in prison, which ended on Sunday.
Accused of having sought to overthrow the regime in Tehran, which she disputes, this employee of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Canada-British news agency of the same name, spent several years in prison in 'Evin, in Tehran.
A second trial to come
In the spring, she had obtained a temporary exit permit under an electronic bracelet, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and had been placed under house arrest with her parents.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is the subject of a second legal proceeding in Iran, accused of disseminating propaganda against the regime, but his trial was postponed in early November, without any new date having been communicated to him until then.
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"My client's hearing for her second case, where she is accused of propaganda against the regime, has been set for March 14," her lawyer Hojjat Kermani told Iranian news agency ISNA, confirming that her first sentence "ended today" and that "her electronic bracelet has been removed".
With AFP
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